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All of this stuff really makes me never want to eat fast food again...

I think he got given away or something...I don't really remember either, only that it upset me severely. LOL

My truck is like that now. But something about the way they set up the system in the other one made it so it was awkward to try to use the pedals with the control system on. I was afraid mom was going to rear end somebody. She was making me very paranoid. You can get a system for a manual...

Maybe it was just the fact that I really liked the dog. I don't know.

Yes that's it. You can get different types though. My mom has a lot of trouble operating it...it's funny. It took some getting used to but it's not that hard.

Run screaming? Some of them might have been traumatized for life! LOL The Fox and the Hound made me cry when I was little. Why are Disney movies usually so sad anyway?

Actually he may have been required to give her a ticket for the seat belt thing...depending on the laws. I do still drive. I've been driving since less than a year after the accident. I use hand controls...and I have a Chevy S-10 truck with the third door, so I don't have to climb all the...

Dude...that took some work. Sushi is such a gross thought...blah.

I'd go with whatever he is the most familiar and comfortable with, personally.

I can see his point though. She didn't wear her seat belt, was thrown from the car and survived with no injuries. Thus, she has nothing to drive the point home that she SHOULD have been wearing her seat belt. He was only trying to provide that for her. For some people, only being like "damn, I'm...

I don't have sympathy for people who are stupid enough not to wear their seatbelts. She has no right to be pissed over the ticket. She's lucky to be alive.

If I had a scan of one of the pictures of my car, you'd be amazed...

Oh yes, I have fully functional hands and arms. The T10 part means my spinal cord injury is at the 10th thoracic vertebra...about midway down your back. Quadriplegia is caused by C level injuries...in the cervical area, though some high T-level injuries can cause arm/hand function problems...

Thanks everybody for the warm welcomes :) How bad is what? Paraplegia? I guess there are two ways I can answer that, if that is your question... It really depends on what I'm trying to do. For the most part I'm adapted, but there are still some things that continue to frustrate me. One of...

Exactly. I just don't see the point in wasting the arm movements if no one besides yourself is going to understand you. To me, that just seems like showing off, or deliberately wanting to call attention to yourself. I am not ashamed, but I still don't like to call attention to myself if I...

I agree with you. Just because I don't want to sign all the time doens't mean I am ashamed of it. This militantism is really ridiculous... Glad not everyone feels that way though.

So many people define the deaf community in different ways...and there are things that a lot of people think those who are "proud" of their deafness shouldn't do. But why? Just because I don't use ASL *all* the time, does that make me less deaf? There are times when you just don't need to do...

Maybe that's where I lucked out, then. I had enough hearing when I was little that I was able to learn speech fairly naturally, although a bit late, with a lot of work and hearing aids and such... but my mother, and her family, did learn to sign. I am the oldest of my siblings...my 17-year-old...

I do not have a cochlear implant and do not want one, but that doesn't mean my grammar is bad, either. If you work on it hard enough, it CAN happen...

For once I've remembered to post an "about me" thread FIRST! Wow. ;) Anyway, hi, I'm Paul, I'm 22, and as it says in my profile, I am a deaf paraplegic. The two are not connected in any way, shape or form. I was born hard of hearing and eventually became deaf from some mysterious genetic...